Learning Objectives

Overall Objective:  Participants will deepen STR knowledge and design the district’s K-3 Literacy Block approach to roll out to campus leaders and classroom teachers as the “tight” structured literacy instructional model. 

• Understand historical reading proficiency trends in the US, Texas and TXRL cohort.

• Reaffirm Scarborough’s Reading Rope as a framework for effective STR/structured literacy  instruction and dispel entrenched myths.

• Explore a 1st grade classroom example illustrating Tier 1 Structured Literacy instruction with opportunities for targeted, data-driven small group instruction and for students to practice skills to mastery based on individual students’ current assessment data.

• Consider research to support repurposing small group guided reading and leveled texts to alternatives which better support learning for all students.

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